The Murders in the Rue Morgue
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Ratings7
Average rating3.3
In The Murders in the Rue Morgue, all of Paris is in shock following the ghastly murder of two women - but with all witnesses claiming to have heard the suspect speak a different language, the police are stumped. When Dupin finds a suspicious hair at the crime scene, and places an advert in the newspaper asking if anyone has lost an 'Ourang-Outang', things take an unexpected turn... In The Mystery of Marie Roget, Dupin and his sidekick undertake to solve the murder of the beautiful young grisette who works in a perfume shop, whose body is found floating in the Seine... And The Purloined Letter, the final in the series, finds Dupin engaged on a matter of national importance: a private (and highly compromising) letter has been pilfered from the Queen's private drawing room. The police know who the unscrupulous culprit is, but they can not find the letter, and therefore are unable to pin the crime on him. It it is up to Dupin to solve the case - which he does, with characteristic flair. A master of rational deduction and intellectual insight, Dupin sees things for what they are, rather than what they appear to be...
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It was a bit dry for me. I tried to read it with different ways to read a book.(ebook, audiobook, physical book) But I couldn't get into the story at all. I see on other websites that I am not the only one who thinks like that.
The deduction style is very Sherlock Holmes -ish. The tale is a gory one, too. I certainly did not expect a culprit as exotic as this. The story was short - that was a bonus. But the style of writing was very strange, almost boring. Nonetheless, I'm glad I read this one. Definitely a must read.
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3 primary booksC. Auguste Dupin is a 3-book series with 3 primary works first released in 1841 with contributions by Edgar Allan Poe.
